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From the Chicago Reader (January 22, 1999). For my earlier take on this film, written when it was released in London, go here. — J.R. The Mother and the Whore Rating **** Masterpiece Directed and written by Jean Eustache With Jean-Pierre Leau...

...are no whores. . . . Love is nothing if you don’t want a baby together.” Central to the feel and method of Jean Eustache’s THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE is its obsessive confessional tone, much closer to Pialat than to Rohmer; its slav...

..., and better understanding it. I’ve noted, for example, other common enthusiasms among most or all of you, starting with Jean Eustache, Monte Hellman, and Abel Ferrara. And differences that usually relate to your (and my) separate nationalities: Kent...

...J.R. Cannes Journal Jonathan Rosenbaum If TOUCH OF EVIL, as Paul Schrader has suggested, is film noir’s epitaph, jean Eustache’s LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN (THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE) may well turn out to be the last gasp and funeral oration...

...s born five years earlier. So the problem obviously can’t be reduced to simple time frames. I feel far more in tune with Jean Eustache, born in 1938, and Jacques Rivette, born in 1928, than I do with Garrel, born in 1948. The post-1968 political desp...

...hown in extreme slow motion and a variety of colours. May 16: As far as the official festival screenings are concerned, Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore, later awarded a Special Jury Prize, is the first major event: three and a half ho...

...hen she was programming the Bleecker Street Cinema in 1977; texts from the early ’80s on Stalker (1979) and the death of Jean Eustache (both translated wholly or collaboratively by Erickson himself), Too Early, Too Late (translated by me in 1982 for...

...s of any sort do not seem like high priorities in Kael’s stable of preferred critics.) In recent years, the late JEAN EUSTACHE has become just as overlooked in the U.S. as Marguerite Duras, and one still awaits (without much hope) the local a...

...n be seen reading in the bathtub in Godard’s Contempt. Apart from producing forty shorts and features (e.g., several by Eustache, Duras’ Nathalie Granger, all his own films) and acting in his own films and others (e.g., Pollet’s L...

...rch 1976 Monthly Film Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 506.) Echoes of this tradition can be seen in the work of such contemporaries as Eustache, Rivette and Moullet. Examples abound: the direct evocations of Murnau in The Mother and the Whore, of Pandora and...

...medy-drama (1996) about the sex lives of 30ish Parisian intellectuals and academics has been compared to everything from Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore to Reality Bites. For me, it’s a lot better than the latter and not nearly a...